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content warning: the conversation covers child abduction, sexual assault, and violent crime. she survived a serial killr. now what? kara robinson chamberlain was fifteen when she was abducted and assaulted by a serial killer for eighteen hours. kara managed to save herself — and remembered enough to hand police the man who did it. yep. all of that. at fifteen. for most people, that's the story. for kara, it was chapter one. she's worked in law enforcement. then a mom. now a host — making two true crime shows at once, with a two-year-old at home, because apparently sleep is optional for kara. here's the part i can't let go of: she connected with the ex-wife of the man who took her and messaged her— "i hear we have something in common." they host a show together now, the serial killer connection. i'm not making that up. on her other show, somebody knows something, she sits with families whose cases went cold. and this time, she lets herself feel it. after years of disassociation from her trauma, she's able to connect and cries with them. she's learned the hard way that life doesn't wrap up neat. "if you're hanging your hat of healing on closure or the justice system — i got bad news for you." so no, this isn't really about true crime. it's about healing — the real kind. messy, no map. it's what you do with your life after the worst thing in it. the labels people stick on you. how you get back up anyway. — look — you don't have to survive a serial killer (please, i hope nobody knows what that's like) to know what a "now what?!" feels like. we've all got one. if this found you where you are, send it to someone sitting in theirs. follow reppin so the next one finds you — a quick subscribe and review is how more people end up here. watch kara's shows: the serial killer connection — id, streaming on hbo max. somebody knows something — streaming on hulu. follow kara: ⁠kararobinsonchamberlain.com⁠ instagram ⁠@kararobinsonchamberlain⁠ reppin: ⁠reppin.tv ⁠ instagram ⁠@reppin_podcast⁠ here, we're human first. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

at nine, a car accident took her father and left one of her arms permanently paralyzed. every time since, when someone decided what she couldn't do, she went and found out for herself. tiffany yu relearned how to write. got herself to the bathroom alone in a wheelchair. stood at the bottom of a climbing wall telling herself she couldn't, and climbed it anyway. somewhere in there, she stopped letting other people set the limit. she built diversability, a community where disabled people find pride and power together. she started speaking on stages when speaking terrified her. she wrote the anti-ableist manifesto, now reaching the people who needed exactly what she went through. she's a forbes accessibility 100 honoree and a tedx speaker whose talk has crossed a million views, and her book is an amazon editors' pick now in its fourth printing. underneath all of it is someone who stopped asking permission to take up space, and can say it plainly: "i love who i'm becoming." "just watch me." if you liked this, listen to eva noblezada next. https://open.spotify.com/episode/04IsNCUXJexaglKUAVikvR tiffany's website: https://www.tiffanyyu.com tiffany's book, the anti-ableist manifesto: https://www.tiffanyyu.com/book diversability: https://mydiversability.com reppin: https://reppin.tv reppin's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reppin_podcast/?hl=en here, we're human first. music: dj ace the cut lieutenant Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

what happens when both choices are the right thing: the life you want, and the family who needs you? liz sargent lived that question for years. every time her sister anna needed help, the phone rang. so she did what she does with fear: she wrote it down. then she turned it into a film and cast anna as the lead. as one does, right? take me home looks like a story about disability and caregiving. it's really about what happens when someone you love needs more of you than you know how to give, and you still have to find room for your own life. we get into the moment she knew this was coming for her, ready or not. fighting a system built to wear you down. why the people we protect most are sometimes the ones we should challenge. and how you live with doing everything you could, and it still not being enough. love isn't the moment you show up. it's the moment you stay after you want to leave. that's family. it's the one class none of us signed up for, and all of us are enrolled in. if you liked this, listen to next. yia vang next: he ran from who he was. now, it's his greatest superpower. take me home: https://takemehomefilm.com/feature liz sargent: https://www.instagram.com/lizziesarge/ reppin: reppin.tv instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reppin_podcast/?hl=en here, we're human first. music by dj ace the cut lieutenant Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

i was there. this is my city. this is what i actually remember. this is the real moments i had. i'm re-releasing this one for the 25th anniversary. it's just me this time, no guest — my own reflections on 9/11, as a new yorker, in my home, twenty-five years later. i don't want to give you the highlight reel version of that day. i want to tell you what it actually felt like to live here when it happened — the fear, the quiet, the way the whole city held its breath together for a while. and i want to talk about what's changed since, and what hasn't. because twenty-five years is long enough to ask a harder question than "where were you." it's long enough to ask: what did we actually learn? and are we still living like we learned it? this isn't a history recap. it's personal, and it's a little uncomfortable in places, because i think it should be. i'm asking you to sit with your own memory of that day too — what it changed in you, what it didn't, and whether the way you're living right now is actually in line with whatever you promised yourself back then. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

**listener discretion is advised. twenty-five years ago, rais bhuiyan was shot in the face, ten days after 9/11, just because he looked different. i'm re-releasing this conversation for the 25th anniversary — him telling you what happened next, in his own words. rais came to america for the idea of it — the cowboys, the fairness, the wide-open promise of the whole thing. in the fear and anger after the attacks, people who looked like rais became targets. a man walked into his gas station, asked where he was from, and pulled the trigger. rais survived. a few other men weren't as lucky. here's the part that doesn't leave you: rais forgave him. not quietly. he campaigned to keep his own shooter off death row, wrote him letters--forgiving him, he fought the state of texas — and lost. the execution happened anyway. rais kept going: a nonprofit, a documentary, a fight in congress to get these hate crime victims recognized by name. this isn't just about 9/11. it's about what a person does that day, the day after. and the day after that. and the twenty-five years after — carrying trauma that could easily define you, and choosing not to let it. it's the difference between forgiveness as a feeling and forgiveness as something you decide, again and again, on purpose. rais made a choice. then he made it again. every day since. which is the only question that matters: what have our choices been, since that day? because rais understood something before most of us do — we don't have to agree, or look alike, or worship alike, to choose not to destroy each other over it. that's not weakness. that's the harder, stronger path. and he's also figured out how to transform that pain into purpose. listen to the whole conversation. think about what you've overcome, and what's still asking to be overcome. look at the choices you've made, and the ones we've made together. sit with someone different from you. extend the hand first. it doesn't have to be big — just make it your choice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

a kid threw away his mother's Hmong food so no one would see it — the same food just made his restaurant one of Time's "World's Greatest Places." yia vang is a Hmong chef in Minneapolis, a James Beard semifinalist whose restaurant vinai has landed on the New York Times Restaurant List and Bon Appétit's Best New Restaurant. he named it after Ban Vinai, the refugee camp in Thailand where his Hmong parents — refugees who fled Laos after the Vietnam War — met and where he was born. he calls it a love letter to them. but before any of that, he hid his lunch for years — rice, fish sauce, anything that made him look like the Hmong kid instead of a normal one. he'd toss it, keep the empty containers, tell his mom he ate. then he trained in every cuisine that wasn't his — Italian, French, Tex-Mex — before he'd go near the food he grew up on. what brought him back wasn't a lesson. it was an egg his grandmother handed him every time he left her house. he thought it was the saddest gift a kid could get. he didn't understand it until decades later, standing in his own kitchen. we all did some version of this too — shortened a name, dropped an accent, swapped a lunch for one that wouldn't get you laughed at, wore your hair differently. this episode isn't about a chef. it's about what it costs to go back for the thing you gave up and finally, embracing who you are. all of you. no matter your race, gender, background, orientation to social status. there are no apologies. here, we're human first. watch and listen on spotify : ⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/1tq2vuZiWLvhmTMaaWX2w8⁠⁠ reppin's gram jam: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/reppin_podcast/⁠⁠ follow yia on social: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/yiavang70/⁠⁠ yia's restaurant: vinai https://www.vinaimn.com/⁠⁠⁠https://www.vinaimn.com/⁠⁠⁠ music by dj ace the cut lieutenant Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

she's blonde. she's australian. and she's been living in china for over a decade. turns out being the outsider has given her the inside track. amy lyons built Blondie in China from the outside in — nearly 600,000 subscribers who show up every week because she takes them somewhere real. street food. local neighborhoods. conversations with strangers. the China you don't see on the news. but here's what nobody tells you about being the one who gets stared at. ten years of walking into rooms where everyone turns to look. of being the curiosity. the outsider. the one who doesn't fit — and never will. most people would shrink. amy got more curious. and what that did to her is the whole conversation. being the one who doesn't fit forced her to figure out who she actually is. standing out when you just want to blend in builds something in you that comfort never could. and the view from the outside — the one nobody chooses — turns out to be the sharpest one in the room. 🎙️ listen to reppin Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/1tq2vuZiWLvhmTMaaWX2w8?si=0fb38eeff9b249ce Apple Podcasts → podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reppin/id1480913421 reppin.tv 📲 follow reppin Instagram → @reppin_podcast YouTube → youtube.com/@reppinpodcast Substack → reppinafterhours.substack.com 🎙️ follow amy YouTube → youtube.com/@BlondieinChina Instagram → @blondieinchina Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

some people wait for permission. these six didn't. osric chau bought a one-way ticket to a country he'd never lived in — and bet on himself. laura sohn walked away from a hit network show in her 20s to build a life on her own terms. chris pang's own team told him to pass on crazy rich asians. he trusted his gut instead. six people you know from the credits, on the exact moment they chose courage — what it took, what it felt like, and what it made possible. no highlight-reel versions. the real ones. this is reppin presents: the moment they chose courage — from reppin, the podcast about the person behind the headline. featuring osric chau (supernatural) — full conversation: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/episode/3lYpczPxR0Kq2rEpOhKgnp⁠  yvonne chapman (avatar kyoshi) — full conversation: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/episode/1jiQWmHgLBoXBBnPpmgBjf laura sohn (the blacklist) — full conversation: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/episode/3bARaZUVlu2yhSWsnHsBmX⁠  gia kim (xo, kitty) — full conversation: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/episode/5SbuRWbiI71JbfGlyVBfQJ⁠  amy lyons (blondie in china) — full conversation: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/episode/0jaOubMJN5guSrVtgYpWSH ⁠  chris pang (crazy rich asians) — full conversation: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/episode/6IbnuLSkTfL0iuV96JVXck⁠  new conversations twice a month. subscribe here, or listen on apple spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/1tq2vuZiWLvhmTMaaWX2w8⁠ apple:⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/1tq2vuZiWLvhmTMaaWX2w8⁠  here, we're human first. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

eva noblezada spent her whole career refusing to be handled, boxed in, or told who to be. and i need you to hear how she says it. she's a two-time tony nominee — for miss saigon, and for hadestown, the broadway musical that takes a centuries-old greek myth and blows it wide open with jazz, blues, and gospel. eva originated the role of eurydice and made it entirely hers. and hadestown just made history. the live stage capture film beat hamilton for the biggest opening weekend ever for a live stage film — pulling in $10.2 million across nearly 2,000 locations. at its core, it's the story of orpheus and eurydice, about finding hope and holding onto love when the world gives you every reason not to. eva is that story. eva's also starring right now as daisy buchanan in the great gatsby on broadway. this woman does not stop. but none of that is why you need to listen to this. listen because eva talks openly about the moments she had to push back — on directors, on trolls, on an industry built to make people smaller — and she came out the other side more herself, not less. not softer. sharper. we talked about beauty. we talked about power. we talked about what it actually costs to hold your ground — and what it looks like when you just refuse to shrink. eva is exactly what she says she is: a powerhouse, on stage and off. if you needed a sign today that your life is yours to dictate — stop scrolling and press play. listen to this one all the way through. this is your reminder. then go check out hadestown — on stage or now streaming in theaters — and follow eva noblezada everywhere, because you're going to want to keep up with her. watch and listen to our full conversation on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1tq2vuZiWLvhmTMaaWX2w8 eva noblezada's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livevamaria/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet reppin's gram: @reppin_podcast substack: https://substack.com/@reppinpodcast music: dj ace the cut lieutenant here on reppin, we're human first. #evanoblezada #hadestown #misssaigon #eurydice #thegreatgatsby #broadway #tonynominee #reppin #herewerehumanfirst Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

three major roles are landing for yvonne chapman at once. that's not what this conversation is really about. she's kyoshi in netflix's avatar: the last airbender, madeline in hulu's the season, and soon on screen with michael douglas, willem dafoe and ellen barkin in oliver stone's white lies. that's a big year. but the roles aren't the point. the point is how she's going about it. she's been on reppin a few times now, across different chapters. go back, listen, you'll hear the trajectory. this is the latest one. might be the most honest yet. betting on yourself with a measured risk, not a blind leap. growing up between hong kong and canada, belonging fully to both. discernment — protecting your energy without losing your warmth. those are power moves. what makes yvonne good to talk to: she doesn't reach for the easy answer just because it sounds good. she did the work to actually know herself. that's rare. it's why people root for her. you don't need three major projects to need this conversation. you just need to have proven you belonged somewhere, given too much to someone who didn't give it back, or waited on a big moment to finally let yourself change. what she's learned is yours to take too. listen now. get to know this talented actress a little better. and walk away with a little more permission to trust your own pace, protect your energy, and bet on yourself. watch and listen on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1tq2vuZiWLvhmTMaaWX2w8 follow yvonne on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ypchapman/?hl=en reppin's gram: https://www.instagram.com/reppin_podcast/?hl=en opening music: dj ace the cut lieutenant Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

chris pang. one of the faces proving hollywood wrong about asian actors. chris pang — charlie's angels, joyride, crazy rich asians, and now hulu's the season, set against the stunning backdrop of hong kong high society, where mystery and drama follow every relationship in the room. chris plays andrew fong, a man who's tough to like at first. but take a second longer look and you see how fully human he is — flawed, insecure, and wanting nothing more than to be loved. but the real conversation starts long before any of these roles. chris grew up not seeing anyone who looked like him on screen — no hero, no proof it was even possible. so he went looking somewhere else. what he found changed the entire trajectory of his life, long before any casting director ever did. that search is what eventually put him in rooms most people never get close to — playing parts that didn't exist for guys like him a decade ago. he gets honest about what it actually cost to get there, and what's still stacked against him. and then there's the one project that did something he never expected — changed how an entire room watched a screen, strangers and family alike, all at once. this is a conversation about being underestimated, about building the thing nobody hands you, and about what happens the moment you stop waiting for permission. LISTEN and WATCH REPPIN on SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1tq2vuZiWLvhmTMaaWX2w8 Reppin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reppin_podcast/?hl=en Reppin's Substack: https://reppinafterhours.substack.com/ Follow Chris Pang: https://www.instagram.com/pangeerz/?hl=en Opening music: DJ Ace the cut Lieutenant Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

listener discretion advised. this episode contains discussion of sexual assault. — allison gill was one of the first four enlisted women in the navy's nuclear program. she was sexually assaulted. she reported it. it was mishandled. she got PTSD. and then she went on camera for an oscar-nominated documentary and said it out loud anyway — because someone had to. that was before the podcast. she started mueller, she wrote which became one of the most listened-to independent political shows in the country by doing one thing really well: making the mueller report make sense to regular people, every single day, while allison was still inside the federal government, with no safety net, threading legal parameters she could not afford to get wrong. the show blew up. she got fired. she kept going. she has stood up — in very different rooms, against very different odds — more times than most people ever have to. and every time, the cost was real. and every single time, allison never backed down. so we got into it. what it actually feels like to keep going when the institution fails you. how she learned to manage tough challenges when you feel overwhelmed. and she learned what changes the moment you stop feeling alone in something. and where the courage to do it again comes from when you already know what it costs. i wanted to know where that comes from. turns out, the answer is not what i expected — and i don't think it'll be what you expect either. so, let's go. — listen on apple podcasts · spotify · everywhere you listen follow @reppin_podcast allison's show: the daily beans · dailybeanspod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happens when you reach the top of your field — and still feel completely alone? I sit down with world-class golfer and long-drive champion Alexis Belton for a conversation about what success doesn’t always show you — being visible, accomplished, even celebrated… and still feeling invisible in the spaces you move through. And maybe more people understand that than we say out loud. In a world where we’re more connected than ever, so many people are still navigating loneliness, disconnection, and that quiet question of where they actually belong. Alexis shares her experience of this as a Black woman in the traditionally exclusive world of golf — and how isolation became the catalyst for something bigger: building community, creating opportunity, and turning personal experience into collective connection. We also talk about privilege, access, and the unwritten rules that shape who gets to feel comfortable in a room and who doesn’t. And how privilege, at its core, is access — access to information, opportunity, networks, confidence, and the unspoken permission to belong. Whether we notice it or not, that shapes every space we move through. Alexis opens up about using golf as a connector, why she joined ONE Campaign — a global organization working to fight extreme poverty and preventable disease while expanding access to health and economic opportunity, especially in Africa — and what she’s learned about vulnerability, advocacy, and building a legacy that’s rooted in impact, not image. This conversation isn’t really about golf. It’s about what it does to a person when they succeed at the highest level and still don’t feel seen. And what changes when you stop normalizing that feeling — and start building something that makes space for other people instead. If you’ve ever felt alone in success, out of place in a room you were “supposed” to belong in, or like you’ve had to figure it all out without a map — I really want you to listen to this one. ONE Campaign: https://www.one.org/us/ Alexis Belton's webpage: https://www.alexisbelton.com/ Alexis' foundation: https://beltondrive.com/ Reppin's page: https://www.reppin.tv/ Reppin's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reppin_podcast/ Reppin's Music: DJ ACE https://www.djace78.com/about Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do Bruce Lee, hip hop, and you have in common? More than you think. Acclaimed author and cultural critic Jeff Chang joins us for a conversation that goes way beyond Bruce Lee—and straight into identity, race, representation, belonging, and the pressure to become someone else just to fit in. Based on his acclaimed book Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America, Jeff unpacks how Bruce Lee became a symbol of visibility, confidence, and self-definition for generations of people who felt underestimated, stereotyped, or erased. But this episode expands far beyond one icon. We get into Hollywood, racism, stereotypes, imposter syndrome, belonging—and the unexpected link between Asian American identity and hip hop culture. Jeff Chang brings a deeply human perspective shaped by growing up navigating race and identity, facing racism at Berkeley, and slowly turning those experiences into voice through music, activism, and storytelling. That lived experience is what grounds how he understands—and writes about—culture, identity, and belonging. At its core, this episode is about identity and belonging—and the power of culture to help people finally feel seen. If you’ve ever felt caught between worlds, underestimated, or like you had to fight to belong—this conversation meets you there… and reminds you: the story has always been yours to own. Listen to Reppin on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reppin/id1480913421 Clips on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ReppinPodcast Follow Reppin on Instagram: @reppin_podcast Visit the Reppin website: https://reppin.tv Learn more about Jeff Chang: https://jeffchang.net/ Open Music By: DJ ACE https://www.instagram.com/djace78/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My next guest has proven you should never underestimate the power of determination and hope. Meet Candace Wohl, she is a writer, public speaker and women’s health advocate. Her evolution towards becoming that advocate began when she and her husband Chris, who were in their late 20s then, were thrown onto the private and painful roller coaster of infertility. After 6 years of enduring an assault of medical procedures and investing their entire life savings, they were still unable to conceive. As they went through devastating lows, they also began documenting their struggles and created a blog called Our Misconception. They worked to break down the stigma of infertility and provided the unique perspective of a man and a woman. They shared information and mistakes to help others navigate and approached this shrouded issue with a lighter touch. Since then, Candace’s blog garnered national attention and has been named Best IVF blog in 2019 and they’ve been profiled in Glamour and Cosmopolitan Magazine and were featured on MTV’s Award Wining documentary series True Life. Find out how Candace and Chris transformed their pain into power, how they harnessed their strength using humor and light and how they persisted through grief. See how she’s paying it forward and find out if she and Chris were able to have the family they desperately wanted. Candace’s Blog Our Misconception: https://ourmisconception.com/ Candace’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/rmisconception Candace’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ourmisconception/ Be sure to check out our instagram https://www.instagram.com/reppin_podcast/ to get an update on Candace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices